David O. Russell and Quentin Tarantino won the writing awards in, respectively, the adapted and original screenplay categories for Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained – both The Weinstein Company releases in the United States. Additionally, Django Unchained earned Christoph Waltz his second BAFTA – the first one, also in the supporting category, was for another Tarantino effort, Inglourious Basterds (2009).

The Universal-distributed Les Misérables won more awards than any other nominated film: a modest four. Les Misérables was awarded BAFTAs in the Best Supporting Actress category for Oscar favorite Anne Hathaway, who thanked the film's cast, crew, and Victor Hugo; Best Production Design (Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson); Best Make-Up and Hair (Lisa Westcott); and Best Sound (Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst).

Ang Lee's 20th Century Fox release Life of Pi won BAFTAs for Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda) and Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer). Disney / Pixar's Scotland-set Brave was the Best Animated Feature.

Daniel Day-Lewis: Four-time BAFTA winner

The British Daniel Day-Lewis was this year's Best Actor BAFTA winner – but for an all-American production in which Day-Lewis plays an iconic U.S. president: Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Of note: Out of its ten BAFTA nominations, more than any other film, Day-Lewis' turned out to be Lincoln's sole win . It remains to be seen whether Lincoln's underwhelming BAFTA performance will be repeated at the Oscars, where Spielberg's film also topped the nominations chart.

"Just in case I might have to speak at these awards," Day-Lewis told the crowd at London's Royal Opera House, "I've actually stayed in character as myself for the past 55 years. Every time I rise from a chair, it spontaneously unleashes a soundtrack of thunderous applause, with a few boos and some drunken hecklers."

Partially backed by MGM and Sony Pictures, the Sam Mendes-directed James Bond movie Skyfall was the Outstanding British Film and the winner of the Best Original Music BAFTA for Thomas Newman. Skyfall's Best British Film win was the first for a James Bond film; in fact, no Bond movie had won any BAFTA since Best Cinematography winner From Russia with Love (1963).

Distributed by Universal in the United Kingdom (and by the Universal-owned Focus Features in North America), Joe Wright's Anna Karenina won one BAFTA: for Jacqueline Durran's sumptuous Costume Design. Of note: both Anna Karenina and Les Misérables were Working Title co-productions.

BAFTA Awards 2013: The Non-Hollywood choices

Director Bart Layton and producer Dimitri Doganis won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the documentary The Imposter, about French serial impostor Frédéric Bourdin.

And finally, Michael Haneke's drama Amour won BAFTAs for Best Film Not in the English Language (for Haneke and veteran producer Margaret Ménégoz) and for veteran actress Emmanuelle Riva. Riva, who turns 86 next Feb. 24 (Oscar night), is reportedly the oldest BAFTA winner ever.

Other 2013 BAFTA Awards

Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson's The Making of Longbird was the Best Animated Short, while Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, and Diarmid Scrimshaw's Swimmer was the Best Short Film. Ramsay is the director of the Tilda Swinton drama We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Film 4's Tessa Ross, whose producing credits include Billy Elliot and Slumdog Millionaire, received the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. Alan Parker, who directed Midnight Express, Fame, Evita, and Mississippi Burning, was given the Fellowship Award.

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ccoraacid

They were definetely pushing the Hollywood presenters-itsa shame when we have so much homegrown talent I would have liked to seen.And the young british actors like Ben Whishaw,Tom Hiddleson and David Hennesy did not even make it onto the BBC coverage but were a tag on at the end.Likewise the awards seem to favour USA productions.I use to like the Baftas because it was about the UK celebration of world wide film and generally I thought their choices were less about the big bucks that he Oscars but this seems to have changed.I was pleased for Amour but dissapointed about the Best Marigold Hotel which i thought was far more innovative with some excellant acting than some of the films nominated.The Baftas were saved by Stephen Fry's wonderful wit,Danial Day Lewis's amusing speech ( which wasr funnier when it has not been cut) and the presence of our Uk stars like Hiddleston and Wisahw on the Red Carpet.